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in spring 2006, highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (hpaiv) of subtype h5n1 was detected in germany in 343 dead wild birds, as well as in a black swan (cygnus atratus) kept in a zoo, three stray cats, one stone marten (martes foina), and in a single turkey farm. in 2007 (june-july) the virus reoccurred in 96 wild birds at six geographically separate locations in the southeast of germany. in addition, a backyard mixed duck and goose holding was affected. real-time rt-pcr [hoffmann, b., harder ...

to obtain estimates for the prevalence of toxoplasma gondii infection in ducks and geese in germany, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (elisa) were established based on affinity-purified t. gondii tachyzoite surface antigen 1 (tgsag1) and used to examine duck and goose sera for t. gondii-specific antibodies. the results of 186 sera from 60 non-infected ducks (anas platyrhynchos) and 101 sera from 36 non-infected geese (anser anser) as well as 72 sera from 11 ducks and 89 sera from 12 geese inoc ...